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Shahzad Khan, PhD
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CEO and founder Gnowit Inc. PhD Univ of Cambridge computer science. Msc Syracuse University Information Studies. BSc LUMS Computer Science.

AI aficionado since 1998. Also natural language processing, big data, prod management + early startup tactics
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I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going
January 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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The clearest picture currently available of the planet Mercury
NASA
December 5, 2024 at 4:57 AM
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EFF’s surveillance self defense guide has specialized guides for protestors, journalists, border crossings, LGBT youth, abortion seekers and more! They also have printable PDF versions!

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Surveillance Self-Defense
We’re the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an independent non-profit working to protect online privacy for over thirty years. This is Surveillance Self-Defense: our expert guide to protecting you and y...
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November 25, 2024 at 10:09 PM
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As an AI researcher, this is my required reading for this Sunday.
abeba.bsky.social Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · Nov 23
"92 million low-income people in the U.S. states—everyone whose income is less than 200 percent of the federal poverty line—have some basic aspect of their lives decided by AI"

www.techtonicjustice.org/reports/ines...

this is a damning report
reads: The Ways AI Decides How Low-Income People Work, Live, Learn, and Survive The use of artificial intelligence, or AI, by governments, landlords, employers, and other powerful private interests restricts the opportunities of low-income people in every basic aspect of life: at home, at work, in school, at government offices, and within families. AI technologies derive from a lineage of automation and algorithms that have been in use for decades with established patterns of harm to low-income communities. As such, now is a critical moment to take stock and correct course before AI of any level of technical sophistication becomes entrenched as a legitimate way to make key decisions about the people society marginalizes. Employing a broad definition of AI, this report represents the first known effort to comprehensively explain and quantify the reach of AI-based decision-making among low-income people in the United States. It establishes that essentially all 92 million low-income people in the U.S. states—everyone whose income is less than 200 percent of the federal poverty line—have some basic aspect of their lives decided by AI.
November 24, 2024 at 4:32 PM
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Math problem. I have three apples and am traveling towards you at 17mph. It's not really a problem, more of a warning. Apple time, bitches.
November 22, 2024 at 5:09 AM
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The real secret to the "Mediterranean diet" is eating equal qualities of pasta and antipasto so that they annihilate one another
November 21, 2024 at 1:42 PM
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Experts warn Trump dangerously close to figuring out where Canada is
Experts warn Trump dangerously close to figuring out where Canada is
OTTAWA - As the re-election of Donald Trump sends shockwaves throughout geopolitics, experts within Ottawa's Department of National Defence warn that the temperamental US president may be closer than ...
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November 18, 2024 at 4:24 PM
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As an Indian, as someone who lived in Egypt, and who has, modestly, remained committed to my politics despite that, here are my rules for living under fascist regimes:
1) Focus on organizational structure. 1/
November 15, 2024 at 2:31 AM
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Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.
November 14, 2024 at 3:23 PM
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Perhaps it was a mistake to let the head of the UAE’s state-owned oil company run the UN’s climate conference
December 4, 2023 at 3:32 PM
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“For Americans to truly understand Israel's attack on Palestinians in Gaza, put their war crimes in proportion to our population:
2,404,168 Americans killed
6,326,758 Americans wounded
64,800,000 homes destroyed
284,704,123 Americans displaced”
- @rafaelshimunov.bsky.social
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Rafael Shimunov @rafaelshimunov For Americans to truly understand Israel's attack on Palestinians in Gaza, you have to put their war crimes in proportion to our population. Which would be: 2,404,168 Americans killed 6,326,758 Americans wounded 64,800,000 homes destroyed 284,704,123 Americans displaced
December 5, 2023 at 5:55 PM
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I haven't seen anyone share this here yet, but Hisham Awartani's family is posting a fundraiser for his ongoing healthcare.
He's one of the 3 young men targeted in the recent racist shooting in Burlington, and is seeking support on a long road to recovery after this hate crime.

gofund.me/026fa8da
Support For Hisham's Recovery, organized by Family and Friends Of Hisham
On Saturday, Nov 25th, 2023, Hisham — a 20 yr old junior at Brown Universi… Family and Friends Of Hisham needs your support for Support For Hisham's Recovery
gofund.me
December 5, 2023 at 3:28 PM